It’s funny to write about vegan cheese scones a month out from the Great Eketahuna Cheese Festival (Sunday 26 – Monday 27 May 2019). It’s a post that’s been gently lapping around me for a couple of months sparked by … Continue reading Vegan cheese scones

A washed rind blue? Never heard of it, nor has Pual Broughton from C’est Cheese, but he reckons it’d be worth a go. This is not a traditional style of cheese, but with a twinkle in his eye Paul thinks … Continue reading C’est Cheese and washed rind blue

Hot melted cheese between butter-fried bread. The American grilled cheese is the pinnacle of cheese on toast. Somehow the toasted sandwiches I grew up on, though delicious, fade beside its fat, cheesy bounty. I confess I’ve only eaten these at … Continue reading Grilled cheese heaven

They came in their hundreds, from far flung UK and Tasmania, from Twizel and Katikati, Auckland and the Waikato, from Wellington and of course from Eketahuna. Cheese makers and mongers, those who wanted to learn and those who were there … Continue reading Eke ‘18 – Cheese, chat and community

I had to take care unwrapping Whitestone’s Kurow Chèvre. You know it’s going to be something special when the cheesemaker has put it in a funky cardboard box. Even before I’d cut the tape holding the paper wrapping in place I could tell Kurow is a delicate beauty. The rind blossoms ivory and white, and laying it gently on the board It shimmers, almost threatening to collapse. Cutting into it shows it is a textally gorgeous cheese. The rind is al dente with just enough bite on the tooth, it barely contains a chalky inner suspended in a glossy, liquid … Continue reading Kurow Chèvre – geek out on goat